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No matter your level of design expertise, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0 will get you moving toward a stunning visualized design of your dream home. The Getting Started Tutorial will guide you through basic design projects. Watch more than 30 videos for step-by-step instructions. Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. You can create your dream home today with the look and feel before it is built with styles, colors, wallpaper, flooring, and materials. Plus, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, and architectural objects from a library of over 4,300 items to create a 3D Model in minutes. Use the Library content to size your rooms, evaluate traffic flow, and create a visual model of your design.
| Create your Dream Home Design your dream home today with Home Designer. Quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. Design and visualize your home with 3D Models and Virtual Tours. |  |
| Choose from Design Templates With Home Designer, you can quickly place and arrange walls, windows, doors, cabinets, choose colors, place furniture, create decks and landscaping. |  |
| Powerful Home Design Software Enjoy the same building and design tools the professionals use--Home Designer is made for the home enthusiasts. Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, stairs, decks, framing, CAD, dimensioning, realistic 3D models, and Plan Check makes it easy for anyone to use. |  |
| Create Floor Plans Select from over 1,500 sample home plans or use the House Wizard to design your house. |  |
| Design Tools With the program's Planning Center, you can use Material Painter to create a virtual look and feel of the design before it is built. You can test your design with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows, and even window treatments. |  |
| Building Tools You'll have complete automatic building tools for roof generation, framing, dimensioning, foundations, and more at your fingertips. You can even automatically generate a materials list for project cost estimating. The software includes a complete set of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools to detail designs and Plan Check, which automatically validates the design against the most current building standards. |  |
| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Chief Architect |
| ESRB RATING: | Rating Pending |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Expert design tips from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens magazines, Create a virtual look and feel of the design with actual colors, wallpaper, flooring, furniture, windows and window treatments, Easily design kitchens and baths with plans and 3D layouts, Choose from a library of over 6,000 items for your designs, Automatically validates the design against standard building principles |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | 045-501-7-m |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 750839011226 |
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Customer Reviews of Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 7.0
Heed the advice of other reviewers Despite all the warnings from other reviewers, I took the plunge with HD Suite 7.0. I figured I don't have much to lose for under $100. I will only add some things I discovered that haven't been mentioned in these reviews. <
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>The software does have a rather steep learning curve if your house is not a standard cape design. The roof tool was certainly the most challenging part to figure out. The manual and online tutorial are vague about many minute details. I have gotten my hands wet in the past with CAD design using AutoCAD and SolidWorks, as well as CorelDraw and Micrografx Draw. Home Designer is much more like SolidWorks than the others, since it creates everything in 3D. <
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>I wanted to model my L-shaped house with one section containing a 1-1/2 story, and the other section containing a gambrel roof, and both roofs blend together. To make things more interesting, I even have a bay window on the first floor of the 1-1/2 story. If I built my house using standard or gable roofs, there are no problems. But the 1-1/2 story took a lot of trial and error as well as searching through the HD and HomeTalk forums to figure out how to generate the roofs while avoiding complaints from the roof builder. <
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>To create both the gambrel and half story roofs, I have to: <
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>2. Override the ceiling height (to say, 24"). This becomes awkward if the floor has been split up into several rooms, because I'll have to do it for each and every room. <
>3. Specify the roof details. <
>4. Build the roof and cross my fingers. I got to use the CTRL-R shortcut a lot and saved my last known good changes often! <
>5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 until I got something usable. <
>5. Then go back to override the ceiling height again (to say, 90"). Ditto as in step 2. <
>6. Avoid rebuilding the roof from that point on. Otherwise, the roof will forget that it was supposed to be a gambrel or half story. <
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>I'm also trying out the dormer tool to add shed dormers to the half story, and it also has similar limitations as the roof builder tool. I came to the conclusion that I would have to spend the $400 to get HD Pro if I wanted to have full control of my roof design. I still can't generate certain roof combinations if one roof gets too tall, but it's good enough for me to generate some views, and I'd leave a slightly taller roof to my imagination. <
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>Generating stairs also takes a little trial and error, since you need to click and drag to the right location the first time. Unlike most other items in the house, it's virtually impossible to move and resize stairs after they're built. <
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>Fortunately, modeling my kitchen, bedrooms, and bathrooms were relatively easy and fun. The cabinet tool is great, and the basic library items were reasonable enough facsimiles. Other than minor details, the model of my kitchen looked just like the real thing. <
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>I was very impressed with the power of this software for under $100. I would have given it 5 stars if I didn't have so much trouble with the roof tool and the incomplete documentation. I'm happy about the HomeTalk forums, as there are several very knowledgeable and helpful HD Pro users there that have answered many of my questions in the archives.
Forget modeling a split-level house
I First realized that the product was limited when browsing the 100 or so samples that come with the product I saw there were NO split-level samples to use as a basis for modeling our existing home. After 4 hours of tweaking with floor levels, wall heights and unintuitive invisble walls, I was able to get something resembling our existing 3BR split-level, but it's off enough that my wife and I will not be able to get the kind of visualization we expected.
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> Invisible walls allowed me to approximate our multi-sloped roof, but the result is not very satisying for all the effort.
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> On the other hand, if NOT trying to model a split-level, it is very easy to use, almost trivial, to pop out a model from a floor plan and the renderings look very nice.
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> Bottom line: I wish I had seen the reviews and known the BIG limitation before I bought the product from Sam's Club.
Warning: Not for Use with Sloped Terrain/Split- Level Entry Homes
The Home Designer Suite 7.0 is very cool, easy to use, and will make you feel like a pro in a relatively short period of time. However, if you have a split-level entry home on a sloped terrain, be prepared for wailing and gnashing of teeth. There should be a warning on the package.
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>I do not believe that creating a split-level entry is even mentioned in the manual; you will need to link-up to the software designer's website (Chief Architect) which can be done from the Home Designer help menu.
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>After discovering the forbidden secrets and practicing a few times, creating a split-level entry is relatively easy. If you have a split-level entry house, this is a major design feature of your home. So it would have been nice if the manual that comes with the software at least addressed the special challenges.
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>The other major feature of a real-life split-level is the slope of the lot. The house is sort of two stories in the front and one story in the back. Creating a reasonable sloped terrain with the software for this effect seems nearly impossible, unless you write topographical maps for a living.
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>The manual gives you only one poorly-explained example of creating a sloped lot using elevation lines. The video/tutorial gives you one more rapid example, with an arrogant claim that it is easy. The tutorial suggests that you consult your GPS device to help with the slope of your land. Please.
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>You can also link to the Chief Architect website from the help menu for an additional example of sloping terrain. The website says that "creating a...sloping terrain is easy...." It ain't. In addition, various secrets need to be uncovered to prevent your split-level entry home from either sinking into the terrain or floating above it.
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>The bottom line: if you live on flat land, buy this software, relax, and have fun. If you live on a sloped lot, you may still consider buying this software. But, be prepared for some considerable frustration.
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